'Amazing Spider-Man' opens to $35 million box office

Thirty-five million isn't a bad haul for a Tuesday. And that's exactly what Sony is celebrating this July 4th as early estimates clock it's latest superhero franchise reboot --
"The Amazing Spider-Man" -- at $35 million in ticket sales on July 3, a holiday eve that just happened to fall early in the week.

That's the biggest Tuesday haul any movie has ever had,
per The Wrap, and puts the movie on track to hit close to $160 million in its six-day holiday weekend.

The reboot stars
Andrew Garfield in the title role and his real-life girlfriend,
Emma Stone, as love interest Gwen Stacy. British actor
Rhys Ifans plays Spidey's nemesis, The Lizard.